Dear Mark!

Regarding the school, matters are indeed becoming complicated, and you are right that the answer needs to be thought through carefully.205 I propose a draft, and in case correspondence with all members of the IC (Executive Commission of the BC) takes considerable time (such correspondence should be conducted, in my view, through one person—that is, through you), I would advise the BC secretary to respond to the "School Council" that the letter has been received and forwarded to the members of the Executive Commission, whose response and decision will now, as they say, take some time, since everyone is away. One need only write to them with a certain acerbity: saying, as it were, that I am aware the Executive Commission members Gr., Inok, and Lenin have already responded on their own behalf to the school, but the School Council must receive a reply from the entire collegium.

* What E. David's plan consisted of could not be established. Ed.